GRAFFITI LA

Well Woo Hoo!, what nice surprises to find out this week that this month’s issue of New York Magazine considered my book on of the Top Ten books of the year and one of the two best “counter culture coffee table books” along with “Banksy: Wall and Piece” (what good company I keep!). See it on-line at http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2007/41801/ and go to the second page (I’m sending you to the first page so you can see they put my book next to Picasso, don’t ya know). What a nice one-line rave: “This was a breakout (or sellout) year for graffiti—that system of urban hieroglyphics for which Grody’s monumental Graffiti L.A. is a Rosetta stone.”

As if that wasn’t cool enough, Publishers Weekly has me on their list of Best Book of 2007 (Non-fiction). To see their original starred review, see my Press section.
“A 17-year effort, this stunning, definitive examination of Los Angeles street art details all aspects of the still-illegal form with 900 gorgeous photographs, testimony from a double-handful of artists and additional material on an included CD-ROM.”